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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Irish Sun.com http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/baf10b3527f6df38/ en-us Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:34:38 -0500 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:34:38 -0500 30 BERLIN - German exports have grown 11.4 per cent to top one trillion euros in 2011 but a sharp decline towards the end of the year has triggered fears in Europe's biggest economy, according to fresh f http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203334192/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:52:23 -0500 Irish Sun.com http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203334192/cs/1/ SYDNEY - Australia's flag carrier Qantas Airways Ltd. said Wednesday it has pulled one of its A380 super jumbos out of service after cracks were discovered in its wings, despite Airbus assuring that t http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203333763/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:36:05 -0500 Irish Sun.com http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203333763/cs/1/ With just five months left for the Euro 2012, England football is in turmoil with the resignation of national team manager Fabio Capello over differences with Football Assoiation (FA) following the sa http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203357258/cs/1/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:50:05 -0500 IANS http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203357258/cs/1/ The European Union (EU) Wednesday adopted a plan to build a strong relationship with Pakistan. http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203340479/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203340479/cs/1/ The Associated Press BEIRUT -- The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, a senior EU official said Wednesday, as Russia tried to broker talks between Syria's vice ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350365/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:02:28 -0500 Star-Telegram http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350365/ Next FRANKFURT, Germany - The European Central Bank and the Bank of England are preparing to offer more emergency support to the financial sector in the hope of softening the impact of a looming ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350385/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:01:17 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350385/ Media are reporting that the third coalition leader, socialist George Papandreou, objects to cuts in main pensions. (Getty) Greek leaders have fallen short of striking a deal on austerity cuts ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350364/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:59:11 -0500 SBS http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350364/ Greek leaders have fallen short of striking a deal on austerity cuts ahead of crucial euro zone talks, jeopardising chances of winning a new bail-out package and averting a disastrous debt default. ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350361/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:57:43 -0500 RTE http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350361/ As European debt crisis negotiations approach the 11th hour on yet another bailout for Greece, Margaret Warner reports on some of the people behind the economic success of Germany -- Europe's ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350360/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:53:53 -0500 PBS http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350360/ The third largest faction in the European Parliament has called for a freeze on contacts with the Russian State Duma until Russia holds "free and fair parliamentary elections." The ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350387/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:52:27 -0500 News.Az http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350387/ THE company behind the 'Irish Daily Mail' and the 'Mail on Sunday' said advertising revenue continued to fall in the three months to January 1 as the economic climate in the UK ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350371/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:37:15 -0500 Independant http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350371/ iPhone or compensate for diving sales of its own old smartphones.Its fourth-quarter smartphone sales shrank 31pc from a year ago and the business made a steep loss for the quarter.Nokia said it ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350372/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:37:13 -0500 Independant http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350372/ Michael Noonan will join colleagues from the eurozone in Brussels this evening for an emergency meeting as the Greek government pushes to finalise the terms of a rescue.The ministers will be joined ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350373/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:37:09 -0500 Independant http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350373/ recession , which is commonly defined as two consecutive quarterly contractions.Business sentiment jumped to a five-month high in January and factory orders gained 1.7pc in December, driven by ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350374/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:37:06 -0500 Independant http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350374/ Angela Merkel 's government is readying plans for parliamentary votes on a bailout for Greece next week while Greek leaders struggle for consensus on terms of the aid, the deputy floor leader ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350375/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:37:03 -0500 Independant http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350375/ THE Euro hit a fresh two-month high amid speculation that Greek politicians were ready to yield to the demands of their troika paymasters despite coalition leaders failing to sign off on tough ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350376/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:37:01 -0500 Independant http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350376/ ) - Myanmar's upcoming elections will be crucial for the credibility of reforms that remain "fragile," the EU's foreign aid chief told AFP ahead of a trip to offer 150 million ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350352/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:26:05 -0500 EU Business http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350352/ ) - Greek government coalition leaders ended lengthy talks on austerity measures Wednesday, with one remaining point of disagreement, the prime minister's office said. The three coalition ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350354/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:25:54 -0500 EU Business http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350354/ (WASHINGTON) - Ratings house Standard & Poor's on Wednesday questioned whether a looming deal to restructure Greece's debt would be enough to put Athens on a sustainable fiscal ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350355/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:25:51 -0500 EU Business http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350355/ (BRUSSELS) - The European Union is making contingency plans in case it needs to evacuate EU citizens from Syria and is mulling a ban on flights into and out of the country, senior officials said ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350356/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:25:48 -0500 EU Business http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350356/ A Dutch collector has paid EUR2,100 via an online auction for a first edition comic featuring the popular Belgian cartoon duo Suske and Wiske. The first ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350382/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:25:14 -0500 Dutch News.nl http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350382/ Five years after they disappeared, jewels belonging to the wife of the former US ambassador to the Netherlands have turned up in the home of a hotel cleaner in The Hague. Dawn Arnall thought the ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350381/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:25:09 -0500 Dutch News.nl http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350381/ posted a fourth-quarter net loss after taking almost 1 billion Swiss francs ($1.07 billion) of charges to speed cost cutting and offload risky assets to meet stiffer capital ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350362/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:20:27 -0500 CNBC http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350362/ posted third-quarter results slightly below forecasts as increasingly tough trading in Spain and Italy overshadowed solid performances in emerging markets and northern Europe at the world's ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350363/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:20:19 -0500 CNBC http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350363/ Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks rose for the first time in four days and the euro reached a two-month high on speculation regional policy makers will approve a rescue package for Greece. ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350030/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:18:30 -0500 Business Week http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350030/ Greece Greek government coalition leaders have ended a marathon session of talks on austerity measures with one remaining point of disagreement, the prime minister's office says. The three ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350338/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:13:21 -0500 ABC Australia http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350338/ GENEVA – Credit Suisse Group posted its first fourth-quarter net loss since 2008 as Switzerland's second-biggest bank continued its drive to reduce its exposure to potentially-risky ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350369/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:02:17 -0500 Yahoo News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350369/ MADRID – Leather seats are disappearing from cars. Precious jewels are vanishing from drawers. TVs are spirited out of homes in the dead of night. These crimes are not what they seem. And the ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350368/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:02:12 -0500 Yahoo News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350368/ ATHENS, Greece – Greece failed to finalize terms for a crucial euro130 billion ($173 billion) bailout Thursday, but Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos headed to Brussels to meet top EU ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350370/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:02:07 -0500 Yahoo News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350370/ Anglo Irish Bank over €2.34bn loans made to Quinn group companies -- to allegedly support the bank's share price -- would be a mere slap on the wrist, the Commercial Court heard ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350384/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:00:24 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350384/ Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Germany’s push to treat Europe’s financial crisis with austerity may backfire by stifling its exports to the euro area, says Jerome Cahuzac, economic adviser to ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350340/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:50:31 -0500 Business Week http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350340/ Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Nokia Oyj will eliminate 4,000 jobs including at its oldest factory in Finland as it shifts mobile- phone manufacturing to Asia, its largest ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350341/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:50:26 -0500 Business Week http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350341/ Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Airlines were ordered to inspect all operating Airbus SAS A380 aircraft, as Europe’s air safety regulator escalates required checks after the wings of the double-decker ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350342/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:50:24 -0500 Business Week http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350342/ Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Glencore International Plc’s planned $39 billion takeover of Xstrata Plc, a combination years in the making, came together in just two months after a pivotal dinner in ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350343/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:50:20 -0500 Business Week http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350343/ Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Illumina Inc.’s board unanimously rejected Roche Holding AG’s $5.7 billion bid to take over the maker of gene-mapping tools as "grossly ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350345/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:50:15 -0500 Business Week http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350345/ Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Spanish smokers, squeezed by higher taxes and a deepening recession, are increasingly relying on smugglers to feed their ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350344/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:50:11 -0500 Business Week http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350344/ Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Argentina will lodge a complaint with the United Nations Security Council over the U.K.’s "militarization" of the southern Atlantic Ocean around the Falkland ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350346/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:50:07 -0500 Business Week http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350346/ Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of England Governor Mervyn King may pump another 50 billion pounds ($79 billion) into the U.K. economy today as he ramps up protection for a nascent recovery from the ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350347/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:50:03 -0500 Business Week http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350347/ The FTSE SmallCap Index -- currently made up of companies with market capitalization of less than 392.1 million pounds ($623 million) -- has risen 10 percent so far this year, compared with a 5.7 ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350348/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:49:58 -0500 Business Week http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350348/ Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- UniCredit SpA’s $9.9 billion rights offer is leading Europe’s stock sales to the best start of the year since 2007, a sign that the region’s companies may ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350349/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:49:55 -0500 Business Week http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350349/ Euro is accelerating higher after 1.3230 break two days back, which now opens the door for a move towards 1.3300 and 1.3400 zone. Larger wave structure still suggests we are in C) wave of a ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350377/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:24:42 -0500 FXstreet http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350377/ More than half of U.S. industry leaders believe that their firms have been hit by the ongoing debt crisis in the eurozone, research has shown. A global survey of top CEOs, carried out by leading ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350388/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:16:24 -0500 IBTimes http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350388/ A Pakistani man who is owed EUR92,000 by a Dublin take-away where he used to work is to stage a protest later demanding his due.58-year-old Muhammad Younis was employed at Poppadom Takeaway in ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350339/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:09:32 -0500 Breaking News.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350339/ Greece is hopeful that eurozone finance ministers will take a "positive decision" Thursday on a bailout loan package, finance minister Evangelos Venizelos said before heading for the ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350359/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:05:11 -0500 Times of India http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203350359/ Neelie Kroes was called to order on 7 February by her colleagues in the European Commission. Brussels’ official line has been and continues to be that Greece will have to be kept on board at ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338950/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:51:10 -0500 presseurop http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338950/ NEW YORK -- The euro rose to a fresh 2-month high against the dollar on speculation that Greek politicians will agree on a new cost-cutting plan.Greece needs to agree on new measures to receive ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338939/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:42:19 -0500 Miami Herald http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338939/ The eurozone crisis is likely to continue to drag on China's exports, a key driver of the nation's economic growth, a senior official at Fitch Ratings said yesterday. China has seen an ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338949/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:31:21 -0500 Global Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338949/ ) - Ireland's deputy prime minister, Eamon Gilmore, voiced confidence Wednesday that Greece would keep the euro, saying that speculation it would exit the single-currency bloc is "not ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338929/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:22:20 -0500 EU Business http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338929/ ) - Hungary's sole nationwide opposition station Klubradio, which recently lost its licence, on Wednesday said it had been granted a 60-day extension pending a court review. With an average ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338931/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:22:14 -0500 EU Business http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338931/ , so many promises have been broken that international lenders have largely lost faith in the country's will to reform itself and are torn between imposing stricter outside control and cutting ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338940/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:16:43 -0500 CNBC http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338940/ Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti is confident reforms undertaken by his country over the last few months will help soften any blow from an unruly default by euro zone partner ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338942/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:16:08 -0500 CNBC http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338942/ TOKYO--The euro held steady in Asia on Wednesday after gaining ground on hopes for a deal on Greek debt restructuring while the yen edged down after worse-than-expected economic data from ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338938/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:15:07 -0500 The China Post http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338938/ The 32-year-old owner of Egyweb, a Web-development company in Cairo, says he may also buy real estate with his Egyptian pound savings, concerned that the loss of reserves will lead to a devaluation. ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338918/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:44:43 -0500 Business Week http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338918/ Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Bertelsmann AG, Europe’s biggest media company, named Anke Schaeferkordt and Guillaume de Posch to jointly head its television unit RTL Group SA, replacing Gerhard Zeiler ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338927/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:44:13 -0500 Business Week http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338927/ Summary There wasn't one iota of difference between the Fed's Jan. 25 FOMC statement and Bernanke's testimony in front of Congress yesterday. Yet, we're led to believe that it ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338948/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:15:26 -0500 FXstreet http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338948/ (Recasts, updates prices, market activity, adds link to graphic) * Gold drops on discouraging economic reports from Europe * Markets wait for Greece to accept tough reports for bailout * ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338934/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:48:40 -0500 Yahoo!7 News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338934/ (Updates prices) * Greek leaders meet in Athens on bailout conditions * Euro zone uncertainty to underpin gold sentiment * Gold-silver ratio drops to three-month low By Veronica Brown London, ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338935/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:48:00 -0500 Yahoo!7 News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338935/ on Wednesday as investors awaited more clarity on a Greek debt deal. Greek party leaders gathered on Wednesday to agree reforms needed to secure a new EU/IMF rescue package necessary to avoid a ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338945/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:31:49 -0500 London South East http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203338945/ While the various wings of the national ruling elites agree on the need for austerity measures, the deepening of the crisis is provoking fierce national and political conflicts among them. An ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329771/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:21:53 -0500 wsws.org http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329771/ UEFA Women's EURO 2013 qualifying resumes for the new year next Wednesday with important games for holders Germany and surprise packages Belgium and Northern ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329718/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:17:35 -0500 UEFA http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329718/ There's still no deal in Athens, but there is something of note: Some euro zone officials are now talking openly about Greece leaving the 17-member monetary ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329737/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:13:27 -0500 The Globe And Mail http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329737/ FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2012 file photo,trader Luigi Muccitelli, left, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Markets were hopeful Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, that a long-awaited deal to ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329725/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:11:08 -0500 St. Louis Post-Dispatch http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329725/ One man has been arrested after cannabis plants with an estimated street value of €800,000 were seized in Co Kildare. The seizure was made in the Kilcullen area in the early hours of this ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329743/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:06:44 -0500 RTE http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329743/ FRANKFURT, Germany - With Europe sliding toward recession, the region's two main central banks are preparing to redouble their emergency measures aimed at softening the downturn and blunting ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329627/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:57:19 -0500 Miami Herald http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329627/ the process of a major structural shift, with the latest multi-day consolidation broken to confirm the formation of a higher low and next major upside extension beyond 7.00. Recent setbacks have ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329747/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:55:56 -0500 MENAFN http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329747/ Copper rose to its highest level in more than a week on Wednesday, lifted by a stronger euro on optimism Greece will be able to secure a bailout package aimed at averting a disorderly ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329770/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:49:30 -0500 IOL http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329770/ RBS boss Stephen Hester has revealed he considered resigning from the bank in the wake of the furore surrounding ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329756/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:48:33 -0500 Independant http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329756/ GREEK coalition leaders are studying a draft deal on further cuts demanded to secure a new bailout that will allow the country to avoid bankruptcy next month.Prime Minister ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329757/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:48:30 -0500 Independant http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329757/ (BRUSSELS) - Romanian and Bulgarian hopes of rapidly joining the Schengen visa-free travel zone were dealt a new blow Wednesday as an EU report urged them to take more action against corruption and ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329731/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:38:14 -0500 EU Business http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329731/ ) - Germany and Kazakhstan signed agreements Wednesday worth three billion euros ($4 billion) to cooperate on raw materials, industry and technology, Berlin said. The raft of some 50 accords was ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329730/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:38:10 -0500 EU Business http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329730/ ) - Iranian lawmakers on Wednesday went into a near month-long recess without taking any action on a threat to impose a pre-emptive oil embargo on European Union countries. In retaliation to a ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329727/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:38:01 -0500 EU Business http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329727/ ) - The EU faces a shortfall of some 2.5 billion euros to complete de-commissioning of eight ex-Soviet nuclear plants in Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia, the European Court of Auditors said ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329732/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:37:57 -0500 EU Business http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329732/ ) - Greece kept the eurozone and financial markets on edge on Wednesday in the final hours of talks on radical extra budget cuts and a debt deal to avert default. Agreement by the coalition ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329734/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:37:55 -0500 EU Business http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329734/ ) - EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton expressed "deep concern" Wednesday after former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed told AFP he had been forced to resign in a coup. Ashton ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329736/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:37:35 -0500 EU Business http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329736/ Mexican plastic pipe maker Mexichem is buying Zwolle-based Wavin for EUR530m - or EUR10.50 per share. The deal has board approval. If enough Wavin investors tender their shares, it will create the ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329761/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:36:59 -0500 Dutch News.nl http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329761/ A painting by Vincent van Gogh which was owned by the late actress Elizabeth Taylor has sold at auction in London for EUR16m. The 1889 work Vue de l'Asile de la Chapelle de Saint-Remy, is one ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329760/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:36:57 -0500 Dutch News.nl http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329760/ The yen slid on Tuesday, pushing the dollar and euro to their highest in more than a week as investors sold the safe-haven Japanese currency due to growing optimism about a Greek rescue deal. The ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329744/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:33:39 -0500 Congoo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329744/ PARIS, Feb 8 (Reuters) - France's economy will register zero growth in the first quarter of this year, the Bank of France forecast on Wednesday, as the country succumbs to a slowdown ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329634/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:32:25 -0500 CNBC http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329634/ on Wednesday reported a 13 percent rise in fourth-quarter profit as the contribution of Genzyme and emerging markets offset patent losses and the impact of austerity measures in ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329512/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:32:16 -0500 CNBC http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329512/ BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese banks which worked for years to build up business in neighboring Syria have been quietly implementing U.S. and European Union sanctions against Damascus to avoid ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329750/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:16:40 -0500 Yahoo News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329750/ HELSINKI – Nokia Corp. said Wednesday it will end the assembly of cellphones in Europe by year-end as it shifts production to Asia in its latest attempt to cushion its finances from stiff ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329751/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:16:35 -0500 Yahoo News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329751/ BERLIN (Reuters) – German exports fell at their fastest rate in nearly three years in December and imports unexpectedly dropped, adding to signs that the euro zone sovereign debt crisis hit ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329753/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:16:23 -0500 Yahoo News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329753/ THERE has been a surge in the number of people saving in banks and credit unions.And the number squirrelling away money is likely to jump again, as banks gear up to pounce on a payout of more than ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329762/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:15:58 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329762/ THE Commission for Aviation Regulation paid bonuses to nearly half of its 18 staff in 2010.Newly published accounts for the CAR's 2010 financial year show that bonuses of €2,000 each were ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329763/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:15:51 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329763/ BRITISH accountancy software group Sage has bought Dublin-based Integral Computers in a deal worth up to €20m.The all-cash acquisition was described by Sage as "a strategically significant ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329764/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:15:47 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329764/ The Irish Independent has learned that the insurer's administrators recently admitted they expect to need €775m from the Insurance Compensation Fund (ICF) to deal ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329765/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:15:34 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/baf10b3527f6df38/id/203329765/